Espanyol 1–2 Real Madrid
- Calatrava 30'
- Bellingham 9'
- Espí 90'
22 August 2026
The match in data
Real Madrid beat Espanyol 2–1 on 22 August 2026, on matchday 2 of the 2026-27 La Liga.
Player of the match: Álvaro Carreras (Real Madrid), rated 78, thanks above all to 4 duels won and 2 tackles. Carreras produced 1.0 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.1 times the cost.
For Espanyol, the highest-rated player was Unai Núñez, with 61.
Álvaro Carreras
Real Madrid · 64'
Produced 1.02× and cost 0.11× their position's average
- 4 duels won 1.3×
- 2 tackles 1.5×
- 3 final-third passes 0.7×
- 2 misplaced passes 0.4×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unai Núñez | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Vanja Drkusic | Defender | 24 | 58 |
| Edu Expósito | Midfielder | 88 | 44 |
| Tyrhys Dolan | Forward | 90 | 42 |
| Javi Hernández | Midfielder | 75 | 41 |
| Álex Calatrava | Midfielder | 66 | 41 |
| Roberto Fernández | Forward | 90 | 38 |
| Urko González de Zárate | Midfielder | 75 | 35 |
| Roger Hinojo | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Rafel Bauzà | Midfielder | 24 | 31 |
| Clemens Riedel | Defender | 66 | 25 |
| Omar El Hilali | Defender | 90 | 20 |
| Marko Dmitrovic | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Pere Milla | Forward | 15 | no rating |
| Pol Lozano | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Jofre Carreras | Forward | 2 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Cucurella | Defender | 26 | 80 |
| Álvaro Carreras ★ | Defender | 64 | 78 |
| Ibrahima Konaté | Defender | 90 | 70 |
| Dean Huijsen | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Federico Valverde | Midfielder | 90 | 65 |
| Arda Güler | Midfielder | 64 | 63 |
| Denzel Dumfries | Defender | 80 | 60 |
| Yan Diomande | Forward | 26 | 51 |
| Kylian Mbappé | Forward | 90 | 49 |
| Vinicius Junior | Forward | 90 | 44 |
| Jude Bellingham | Midfielder | 80 | 43 |
| Bernardo Silva | Midfielder | 80 | 39 |
| Thibaut Courtois | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Carlos Espí | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Eduardo Camavinga | Midfielder | 10 | no rating |
| Trent Alexander-Arnold | Defender | 10 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.